Tackling energy efficiency in the world of mobile video

Demand for mobile video has exploded. As the thirst for multimedia access—from anywhere at anytime—continues to grow, so has the availability of TV-anywhere services. This has been a boon for service providers, eager to add new consumer applications to their portfolios, but it has also created a huge challenge for the supporting infrastructure equipment, not to mention leveling a potential conundrum: The performance required to process video from the media gateways must be tempered with low power that will not over-tax the infrastructure, but will provide cost containment and sustainability.

Advances in video transcoding implementations from new, alternative processors and the streaming architectures that support it—some of which can yield a real 15x power/density gain over processor technology typically used in today's infrastructure equipment—can be part of the solution to ensure high-performance, low-power platforms for mobile video.

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